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Action

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Act, don't react!

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von